Question: WebView2 requires elevated mode ?

Attempted to create and initialize WebView2 but Access Denied. This code is supposed to work only in elevated mode or a particular Windows policy required?

[krschau]

@sigmarsson Creating custom environment options is not currently supported in WinUI. When you do need to specify a custom User Data Foder, @osamu-ikawa’s suggestion of using the environment variable would be the way to do so at this point. Doing it directly via environment options is something we want to support in the future.

About the original issue: the Access Denied error is expected when you use a WebView2 inside a WinUI 3 unpackaged app. This is because the default location of the User Data Folder ends up being in a protected directory, and we can’t create the folder there. Generally you’ll want to handle the user data folder location and cleanup for this type of app. More details and guidance can be found in the Manage user data folders doc. Looks like we need to add a section to the “WinUI 3” tabs to give guidance for unpackaged apps – I think it would look a lot like what’s currently in the “Win32” tabs. I opened an issue to update the doc.

[lyahdav]

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Per my previous comment this still seems to be an issue even when setting the WEBVIEW2_USER_DATA_FOLDER environment variable.